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Community Nursing

Comprehensive Health Assessment Team - Homeless (CHAT-H)(714) 834-8498CHAT-H provides targeted nursing case management for Orange County residents who are in housing crisis. Clients are seen in shelters, soup kitchens, motels, and on the streets. The primary goal is to link clients to health insurance and a health care home.

Medically High Risk Newborns (MHRN)(714) 834-8207Provides comprehensive nursing case management services to medically fragile infants until they are 36 months of age. The goals are to promote optimum growth and development; demonstrated parenting skills of caregivers with infants with special needs, and supportive family dynamics that promote attachment.

Project Connections Family Resource Center (FRC) Health Access(714) 834-8207Provides consultation to Family Resources Center Health Access teams and home visitation to families referred to the FRC's. The Health Access goal is to reach medically and socially vulnerable children with accessible, culturally sensitive services that build on family strengths and improve overall health and well being of children served.

About Community Nursing

Public Health Community Nursing provides nursing services in the home and community with a focus on communicable disease investigation and maternal-child health for high risk adolescents, women and their children.

The Public Health Nursing Division of the Orange County Health Care Agency applies public health and nursing knowledge in the provision of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention and health services to individuals, families, and communities.

For more information or to make a referral please contact the office for your service area, or call (714) 834-7747. Click here for a list of service Areas. The Public Health Community Nursing Mission is to improve the health of our community by providing quality Public Health Community Nursing services. Services include:

Infant and Child Health:

Assessment, health teaching, referral and follow-up of:

Prematurity

Perinatal substance exposure

Developmental delays

Sick child

Congenital conditions

Emphasizing:

Developmental screening tests

Parent/child interaction assessments

Preparation for hospital discharge

Facilitation of family support system

Use of special equipment

Understanding of medical conditions

Follow-up of physician's recommendations

Promotion of healthy practices, including immunizations and well-child care

Infant/child stimulation for developmental progress

Nutrition

Signs and symptoms of illness and prevention of illnesses

Understanding of child's behavior/psychosocial problems

Safety promotion and injury prevention, including car seat safety

Communicable Disease Investigation:

Investigation of selected reportable communicable diseases and cases found in the community

Case management of persons who require laboratory testing in sensitive occupations/situation to prevent spread of the disease

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